Improvement in sap-bucket brackets



PELLETT.

Improvement in Sap-Bucket Br ackets.

Patented Aug.27,1872.

gttnmeg UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. PELLETT, OF ooononowoo, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAP-BUCKET BRACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,863, dated August 27, 1872.

supporting buckets on maple trees by means of vertically-adjustable brackets, which are applied thereto, without injuring the trees. The invention consists in the use of the brackets, which are fastened to the trees by means of wires or cords that embrace the same. By this means the buckets can be applied in suitable position and shifted-to difl'erent heights from year to year, as may be found necessary, and remain always in good order.

A in the drawingrepresents a sap-bucket of suitable size and shape. B is the bracket,

*supporting it along the side of the tree 0.

This bracket is of wood or other material, sufficiently large to support the bucket, and is held to the tree by means of wire or cord at that embraces the tree. The ends of the cord .or wire a. are fastened to pins 1) b at the sides or other part of the bracket. The Weight of the bucket and its own weight holds the bracket in place. Still, it can at any time be adjusted up or down, or to difl'erent sides of the tree.

' The bracket can remain on the tree from season to season, as it does not injure the tree, nor interfere with its growth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters'Pateut V The cord-wire a and detachable screws b b, combined with a bracket, B, constructed as described.

. JOHN J. PELLETT. Witnesses:

J oEL R. CARPENTER, DAvrn EDWARDS. 

